The rupee sign "₨" is a

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used to represent the monetary unit of account in

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, and formerly in

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. It resembles, and is often written as, the Latin character sequence "Rs", of which (as a single character) it is an

orthographic ligature In writing and typography, a ligature occurs where two or more graphemes or letters are joined to form a single glyph. Examples are the characters and used in English and French, in which the letters and are joined for the first ligature a ...

. It is common to find a punctuation mark between the rupee symbol and the digits denoting the amount, for example "Re: 1" (for one unit), or "Rs. 140" (for more than one rupee). On 15 July 2010, India introduced a new currency symbol, the Indian rupee sign, . This sign is a combination of the

Devanagari Devanagari ( ; in script: , , ) is an Indic script used in the Indian subcontinent. It is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental Writing systems#Segmental systems: alphabets, writing system), based on the ancient ''Brāhmī script, Brā ...

letter र (''ra'') and the

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capital letter R without its vertical bar (similar to the R rotunda).

In Unicode

Rp

Rp is the standard abbreviation for the Indonesian rupiah.

Legacy encoding

This symbol is not present as a separate code point in

ISCII Indian Standard Code for Information Interchange (ISCII) is a coding scheme for representing various writing systems of India. It encodes the main Indic scripts and a Roman transliteration. The supported scripts are: Eastern Nagari, Bengali–Ass ...

or PASCII.

Notes

References

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